This blog serves as a space where I can share the process of my painting journey.........

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

To all of you who follow my daily activity, I have been taking a little time off to fill the well, so to speak. I did want to share with you some very wonderful news!
Emily Jeffords has featured some of my artwork on her blog you can view it here.
Please take the time to visit her wonderful, creative blog and see all that she has been up to.

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

In this painting I wanted a deeper space and set the still life back with an exspanse of foreground. I worked the color to intensify the foreground enough to hold the weight of the background. Loved working with these wide open flowers...such a pleasure.
8X8
oil
canvas panel

This has been my project for this week. I bought these old playskool blocks on Etsy a couple of weeks ago and today painted them in primary and secondary colors. I am using them to paint from. Many months ago I bought the DVD Painting Light: The Cape School Method by Camille Przewodek and she suggested making a set of colored blocks to use as studies.I like the way that she uses color as light. I paid $11.00 for the blocks and had the paint. I am excited to begin working from them. I looked for a long time before I found the blocks and price I wanted.

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

In this painting I once again used the lemons and paired them with some vintage glasses. Love this vintage glassware from the 1940's. To stretch the value range I used pepsi for my darkest value. I had a lot of fun with this painting and I am very happy with it. I really had to work a long time getting the composition down. I seem to spend more time setting up a still life than actually painting it. :)

About Me

I find that every available minute that I have is filled with a desire to paint. Painting is not an easy task for me and requires great patience and persistence. It is light falling on a bush, a pitcher or cascading off of a table that I am interested in. I try not to think too much about what I am going to paint. I look around my home or thumb through photos to find the perfect subject for that day. I don’t want to carry forth a narrative or tell a story. My delight is in the struggle to paint and to capture light; those intimate hours where it is just me, my tools, and hard work.
I like abstraction and then on the other hand I enjoy realism. Because I paint images that are both representational and abstract, I define my way of painting as abstract realism. There is a refinement to my painting and also a gutsiness and bold aggression. I don’t simply want to paint a beautiful image (although that is part of it), I desire to paint and show my arduous search to define what is before me.
If I can paint something that finds a space in your heart then my quest has not been in vain.